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Ground Beef Stroganoff

Beef stroganoff. Definitely a comfort food dish. For me, it’s up on the list near fried chicken and okra. I love the humble roots of stroganoff. It isn’t pretentious, it uses simple ingredients and it is a cheap dish that can easily feed your entire family.

Over the years, I’ve sort of tweaked and twisted this recipe. This really is a combination of a few recipes combined into one and I think the result is yummy, filling and it can all be made on the stovetop. So it’s not only a comforting dish for the winter months but for summer as well. Also, this dish comes together fairly quickly. You could probably have dinner on the table within 25 minutes.

Ingredients: 1 package egg noodles

1 pound ground beef

1/2 yellow onion, chopped (about 1/3 cup)

1 teaspoon garlic, minced (about 1-2 cloves)

3 tbsp. butter 3 tbsp. flour

1 1/2 cups beef broth

1 cup sour cream

1 can cream of mushroom soup

salt & pepper, to taste

Directions:

Bring a pot of water to boil and begin to cook egg noodles according to package directions. In a large skillet over medium high heat, brown ground beef along with the onions and garlic until thoroughly cooked. I like to leave chunks of ground beef and not break it up too small.

Drain ground beef to remove excess grease from pan. Put pan back on stove over medium heat (don’t add the ground beef back in yet.) Add butter to pan and let it melt.

Then add flour to pan, stir and let it absorb butter.

Now add beef broth and whisk vigorously to remove any lumps, turning the heat up to high, bringing it to a boil for 2-3 minutes until you see it thicken slightly.

Bring temperature down to medium and whisk in sour cream and cream of mushroom soup. Stir until mixture is thoroughly incorporated.

Add salt & pepper. Keep tasting mixture until it is seasoned the way you like. I probably use a good teaspoon and half or more of salt and pepper. If it gets too thick on you, just add a tad more beef broth. Add ground beef back to mixture.

Stir and then allow to simmer for about 5 minutes.

Serve over egg noodles.

Enjoy!

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Ground Beef Stroganoff

Cook Time30minutes

Total Time30minutes

Servings6-8

AuthorThe Country Cook

Ingredients

1poundground beef

1/2cupyellow onionchopped (about 1/3 )

1teaspoongarlicminced (about 1-2 cloves)

3tbsp. butter

3tbsp. flour

1 1/2cupsbeef broth

1cupsour cream

1can cream of mushroom soup

salt & pepperto taste

egg noodlescooked according to package directions

Instructions

Bring a pot of water to boil and begin to cook egg noodles according to package directions.

In a large skillet over medium high heat, brown ground beef along with the onions and garlic until thoroughly cooked.

I like to leave chunks of ground beef and not break it up too small.

Drain ground beef to remove excess grease from pan.

Put pan back on stove over medium heat (don't add the ground beef back in yet.)

Add butter to pan and let it melt.

Then add flour to pan, stir and let it absorb butter.

Now add beef broth and whisk vigorously to remove any lumps, turning the heat up to high, bringing it to a boil for 2-3 minutes until you see it thicken slightly.

Bring temperature down to medium and whisk in sour cream and

cream of mushroom soup.

Stir until mixture is thoroughly incorporated.

Add salt & pepper. Keep tasting mixture until it is seasoned the way you like.

Oh Yummy! I cannot wait to try this. I've only ever made Stroganoff with cut up beef. Ground beef will be SO much easier! I just bought several pounds too so I think I'll add this to my menu this week! Thanks so much for sharing it!

I made this last weekend and my husband and I nibbled on it several days. I did substitute light sour cream and reduced fat soups but it is an amazingly easy comfort food! Definitely staying in the from of my recipe binder! ;>}

We had this for dinner tonight…. my husband claims he doesn't like stroganoff, but said he would try it because he has only had it with the chunks of beef (stew meat)…. he really like it!! I served mine over rice instead of the noodles for something different and we really enjoyed it:) I haven't made one thing from your site that we haven't liked. Thank you so much for the great recipes!!

I made this last night for dinner….halfway through realizing I had no flour. So I just cooked in an extra 10 minutes and it was thick enough! = There were no leftovers! My daughter (who doesn't eat meat normally) ate a bowl of it, and my 6 year old asked if he could have it again tonight! Thank you for making happy tummies everywhere!

This recipe was so good! I felt bad when I made it because we had hamburger helper stroganoff sitting in the cupboard and now I feel even worse because I might never get around to making it after having this. Thanks so much!

Believe it or not, I had never had beef stroganoff (I know!). Anxious to try it after reading this recipe, I made it and REALLY enjoyed it! I served it with a salad and french bread which was an awesome combination! I did use fat free sour cream and the (almost) fat free cream of mushroom and it turned out great! Thanks so much for broadening my horizons with this recipe! 😉

Just had this for dinner and it was marvelous. I prefer it over traditional stroganoff because I don't enjoy the big chunks of meat, the ground beef is just perfect. Lots of flavor in this and it's going to be great reheated for lunch tomorrow. Thanks for two great recipes in one weekend, Brandie! The Southern Pecan Praline cake from yesterday is great reheated, as well. You cook the way I like to eat. 🙂

I just made this tonight for dinner. I LOVE beef stroganoff but wanted a recipe that was more made from scratch. I just substituted organic cream of mushroom soup (i can't have MSG) and added some Worcestershire sauce at the end. My husband and I LOVED it!

I didn't have the cream of mushroom soup and it turned out PERFECTLY! Thank you for sharing. I added a bit of horseradish and upped the sour cream. Returned to this for leftovers (I hate leftovers). Love your site!

So…..I didn't have all the ingredients for this, so I improvised! I used cream cheese in place of the sour cream and added a little heavy cream with chicken broth instead of beef (that's all I had at home). I left out the mushrooms but added about 1 Tablespoon of cooking sherry. It was yummy! Served it over mashed potatoes, and sent hubby to the store for egg noodles so I can serve it over those for tomorrow's lunch.

Made this for dinner tonight, had the meat but wasn't sure what I was going to make. Found the recipe on Pinterest. I have made what I thought was the quick version before, meat, noodles, cream of mushroom soup and that's it. Don't think I will be making it "my way" anymore. This recipe only took a few more minutes (sauté onions and mushrooms) and was much more tasty. Thanks!

I have made this many times over the years, and my recipe was very similar (I guess great minds really do think alike?!) I love it, and the more mushrooms, the better! No one else here, though, likes mushrooms, they say, so I chop them really finely and they never know they're eating them. Sometimes I use strips of beef, but this is usually one of my low-cost meals, and I usually have all the ingredients on hand. This is a great quick and easy, low cost dinner. Thanks for making it more mainstream!

I have made this for over 30 years…. brown hamburger – onions etc. – add one can of mushroom soup and a can of beefy mushroom soup and a can of boiling water. Add 1 cup of sour cream – (all this is done in one skillet) add salt pepper. Once stirred – add 2T of kitchen bouquet (to darken the stroganoff) While browning hamburger and onions – cook dumpling style egg noodles. For something different you can add mexican corn to the mix!

I am a lover of ground beef stroganoff . Researched several recipes and yours' was the most appealing. Directions were easy and simple to follow. Felt like I was cooking beside you. The end product was AMAZING!! Looking forward to viewing more of your recipes.

I got home late for dinner tonight && everyone had already eaten. We had some ground beef already defrosted && came upon this recipe on pintrest. It was quick, easy && I know my house will indulge in leftovers tomorrow! Absolutely delicious. (I too am not a mushroom fan so left those out but the cream of mushroom soup was perfect!)

Love this recipe but surprised you do not add a small amount of Worchestershire sauce if you are calling it stroganoff. I've made this recipe as is but add 1 can of drained yellow wax beans and serve over mashed potatoes. No fancy name, just called it creamed hamburger.

My husband and I have been using this recipe since 2013. It is one of his all time favorites (and that means a lot because he is PICKY). I opened the page today and almost thought I was in the wrong place because I didn’t recognize the pictures! Just wanted to stop by and say the updated pictures are beautiful and thanks again for such a classic and easy recipe :).